#hyperpop

#hyperpop

Lightris and his pal sero stumbled into a TikTok hit with 'Kwik Trip,' a feathery, jittery ode to the beloved Midwest gas station chain. In the video, they shimmy shoulders, top rock, and hit Stevedastoner's 'Uptown Downtown' dance in the snow as the handclaps rain down.

Working in the vein of "laptop twee" acts like friends& and Worldpeace DMT, who fuse the genre-smashing maximalism promised by hyperpop with the whimsical optimism of '00s buzz bands, the material on their 2025 album Shy at first is as dense and dynamic as the songs you try to compose in your imagination.

Michael Bublé and Mariah step aside, there's a new festive icon competing for the coveted Christmas number one spot on the chart. But Denise Welch also has competition from Kylie Minogue 's single, "XMAS." It's really a battle of the gay icons this year. Promotion for the track, a collaboration with chocolate brand Celebrations, sees Welch referencing Kylie in an all-red ensemble. She also dances around the booth with her fluffy scarf and oversized sunglasses in the song's video.

Every now and again, a scene seems to be bubbling up out of nowhere, and all of a sudden, everyone is talking about it. That is what's happening with the U.K. underground right now. Fakemink is the rapper that you need to know from that world. You might have seen him popping out at Wireless Festival with Drake. This my dog right here.

When Angel and Lulu Prost were kids in St. Louis, Missouri, they played in a family band at church on Sundays. Now the twin tricksters make music so aggro it could jumpscare the pope. Frost Children's new album, SISTER, is packed with tracks that sound devised in a VO2 max lab to push people into excruciating physical exertion. This is a duo who grew up on brostep and Krewella and have spent their career shitting on taste boundaries.

SOPHIE's debut project, PRODUCT, released in 2015, significantly catalyzed hyperpop's mainstream rise, bridging the internet subculture with widely recognized pop acts.

Join two of the Bay's trendiest QTBIPOC collectives for QUEEN OUT, a hyperpop-adjacent queer club night featuring trailblazing Black+Queer talent.